So the project formerly known as "One Could Do Better" has several competing titles at the moment. For a while I've been going with "Wild Fox Koan" but the title is problematic; I had considered this title while working on a subplot that ultimately didn't work out. I either have to make the book topical to the title again, or I have to consider another title.

I considered "District Line" as a title. This is up there in the running as it's the title I gave a song that I co-wrote with Pepper Coyote a few years ago (you can find a newer version of the song here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16844631/) Since that song is something of a theme for this book and the time I spent in London that inspired it, this title seems appropriate.

Another title I considered is "Urban Fox" or something with the phrase "Urban Fox" in it. The title is definitely topical as urban foxes are a major part of the setting. This is the title of a poem I wrote a couple of years ago, also inspired by my time in London and used as an inscription since the first major revision of the project formerly known as "One Could Do Better."

In the lamplight's glow, as the city slept,
Out from the safe old shelter, into the streets
I strode, with silent footfalls searching,
My needs simple, my hunger deep.

You crossed my path, flitting,
Floating over macadam,
Flowing over a wall
But for one moment, you paused.

And in your eyes I saw it,
That same hunger, deep and wild,
And I knew, as you slipped into the shadows
That we were too alike.

We twilight hunters two, each seeking,
in the gray pre-dawn our quarry
Had, but for one passing moment
Smiled upon our kin!